You can't exactly classify these guys as rock, I suppose, but this was hard rockin' at the time. It definitely paved the way for hard rock and metal years after it, and it's still awesome, 10x more dark and heavy than any other death metal band.

The Beatles were so influential it's frightening. You all know that, no matter how average those albums be, these guys were important to the creation of many genres, especially in songwriting techniques.

sry man, i think you made a perfect list but i just can't get into springsteen. i mean obviously i have an obscure opinion when it comes to the boss and it's probably wrong (if opinions can be wrong) because so many people love him and he's sold millions of albums. Doesn't change the fact that i'd rather get sucked off by data from star trek than listen to his music